[App_rpt-users] URI and URIx Testing

[Bob]

Good feedback. I believe that is the issue. I checked out my URIs on another
older slower computer, and they are fine. Need to make a kernel (see David's
post) or hardware switch.

Now attempting to make the older slower computer work with simpleusb, and
see if I can get this repeater online while stumble through the rest of this
"upgrade." :-)

Thanks much,
Bob
kk6ecm

-----Original Message-----
From: Willem Schreuder [mailto:willem at prinmath.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 8:50 PM
To: Bob
Cc: 'Chris Andrist'; app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] URI and URIx Testing

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Bob wrote:

> Most recent ACID distro from Allstarlink.org. Gigabyte C1007UN-D with 4
gig
> memory, and an SSD SATA drive.
>
> Built in with an IntelR Dual-core CeleronR 1007U processor (1.5 GHz)

The problem is not your configuration, it is the motherboard.  I have 
tried that exact same motherboard and it just will not work.  I think it 
is the NM-70 chipset, because I had another motherboard using the exact 
same chipset with the same problems.

The simples solution is to get a different motherboard, e.g. the Atom 
using the NM-10 chipset.

What you will find with the problem motherboard is that the alsa utils 
such as aplay and alsa-mixer works perfectly.  You can play audio to the 
URIx using aplay (connect up powered speakers to the audio out pins). 
However, neither Asterisk nor uridiag will correctly output audio.

I have spend weeks trying to diagnose exactly what the problem is, 
inserting diagnostic prints in both uridiag and the chan_usbradio code, 
but I have not been able to figure it out what the issue is.  The mixer 
settings seem to get set correctly, but the audio ends up nowhere.

If you simply get a different motherboard, you could download your exact 
same config and it will work perfectly.  I tried that with my node on five 
differnt computers, and the two using the NM-70 chipset would not work, 
and the other three using differnt chipsets worked perfectly.

If somebody DOES figure out what makes this motherboard (or chipset) 
whacky, I would love to know, but my advice is to repurpose that 
motherboard and get one NOT based on the NM-70 chipset.

73 Willem AC0KQ

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